Comments on: How to Re-Download OS X Mountain Lion Installer from the Mac App Store

By: bub

bub — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:20:35 +0000

Up yours LOL. We’ve obviously already fu-ked the duck, now we need to un-fu-k it. Dipsh-t!

By: Old_pedagog

Old_pedagog — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:42:42 +0000

Hi, I have bitten the bullet and bought a used MacBook, it is running OS X Snow Leopard, the same as on my father in Law’s iMac. He now wants to upgrade to Mountain Lion but is put off by adverse comments and would like me to install it first, on my machine, as a trial. I have been having all sorts of speed and drop-out problems with my broadband connection and am considering downloading Mountain Lion on his computer. I have read your article on ‘re-downloading OS X’ but am still not clear if I can do what I plan. Can you answer these queries please?
1/ If I download Mountain Lion to my father in law’s computer do I then HAVE to install it there and then as part of the process? He is not happy with this.
2/ If after downloading and ‘saving’ Mountain Lion on his machine can I then install it on my MacBook by copying the saved file and transferring it? Or do I have to do the re-download you suggested?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:56:50 +0000

thanks! Solved my problem.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:53:42 +0000

I managed to re-download Lion from App store for a fresh install, but with some pain in the process.

Long story short, option-click in purchases did not work and that happened to be that when I bought Lion I lived in a different country so my app store then corresponded to that country.

I had to figure out that if I changed back my address information in the app store account to that of the time of the purchase, Lion appeared on purchases when pressing option-click.

Of course, I downloaded it and stored several copies of the installer.

In the meanwhile I contacted Apple via email, receiving very polite but useless replies.

In my opinion it is terrible for something like this to happen. Something as fundamental as the operating system of your computer should be always available for download.

Unfortunately it reminds me of a very renowned printer manufacturer that explicitly said that one should buy a new printer if you ungraded from XP to Vista or 7.

Hope it helps, Charlie.

By: Klingsor

Klingsor — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:07:41 +0000

Then you don’t need a copy…

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:44:46 +0000

I have had so many problems getting MacOS 10.8 to download, and finally I found a solution, as crazy as it sounds it worked!

I set my iPhone up as a personal hotspot, switched my Mac to use the iPhone’s internet connection via blue tooth and then amazingly the download started to work.

After it got past a point, (Always 75mb) I switched the mac back to the Ethernet connection and the down load so far is continuing without further problems…

My main internet connection is a Fibre to premises line, perhaps this is the problem when using a Mac.

By: philip

philip — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:43:20 +0000

Please I don’t have a mac, and I want to download the os x mountain lion, ihow can I do it

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:23:47 +0000

HI… My Mac has died… but i know I can easily fix it if I can get my already purchased Lion install from the App Store. Trouble is… the only computer I can get online with is a Power PC Mini Mac, which can not access the App Store Is there any way to get the file downloaded using a Power PC? This is mind numbingly frustrating!!! Thank You!

By: Ben Hegarty

Ben Hegarty — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:00:30 +0000

I just navigated to Mountain Lion in the Top Charts and clicked “Download”

It gave me a dialog: “You already have Mountain Lion installed, are you sure you would you like to continue?”

Clicked yes and BAM! It’s downloading!

Let me know if it works for you too…

By: JB

JB — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:26:22 +0000

I tried the otion click, didn’t work.
I signed out then resign in to my apple ID and it worked.

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:50:29 +0000

I figured it out!!
Go to your account settings and under “purchased apps” it’ll say 1 hidden app, go into that section. Unhide Mountain Lion, click done and go back to purchases, it’ll show up and just hit download.

Hope this helps

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:40:45 +0000

Ya, No luck for me either. Mountain Lion was indeed hidden, but even when unhidden, I only have the option to Download. guess I was one of the unlucky ones

By: lol

lol — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:29:43 +0000

why not copying it after first download?

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:50:12 +0000

I guess they at least they saved us the trouble of finding it the article…

By: circulair

circulair — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:32:02 +0000

I downloaded last night and still have “DOWNLOAD” in App store – Purchases folder? noticing some bugs, 1st: Calendar
alarm to wake me every Wednesday to put rubbish wheelies out, was moved to Monday????